List of African languages
This is a partial list of African languages:
The African languages are divided into four families.
Afro-Asian languages
(formerly also: Hamitosemitic languages)
General
The Afro-Asian language family comprises over 200 languages and 250 million speakers.
Subgroups
A distinction is made between the following branches:
- Egyptian language
- Bedscha (often still counted among the Cushitic languages)
- Berber languages
- Cushitic languages
- Omotic languages (long counted among the Cushitic languages)
- Semitic languages
- Chadian languages
Niger Congo Languages
General
The Niger-Kordofan languages include:
Subgroups
A distinction is made between the following branches:
- Niger Congo Languages
- Kordofan
Khoisan languages
General
The Khoisan languages are spoken in southern Africa. There are only about 150,000 speakers.
Subgroups
North Khoisan languages
South Khoisan languages
ǃKwi
Hua
Central Khoisan languages
Nilo-Saharan languages
General
The Nilo-Saharan languages are genetically very different.
Subgroups
- Berta
- Daju
- Didinga - Surma
- For
- Ingassana (Tabi)
- coma
- Kuliak
- Kunama
- Maba
- Meroitic
- Nera
- Nilotic languages
- Nubian
- Nyimang
- Saharan languages
- Songhai Djerma
- Tama
- Central Sudan languages
Remarks
- ↑ Note: This article contains characters from the alphabet of the Khoisan languages spoken in southern Africa . The display contains characters of the click letters ǀ , ǁ , ǂ and ǃ . For more information on the pronunciation of long or nasal vowels or certain clicks , see e.g. B. under Khoekhoegowab .